Madagascar Wagtail
Motacilla flaviventrisHartlaub, KJG, 1860
English (US) Madagascar Wagtail
The Madagascar Wagtail (Motacilla flaviventris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Motacillidae (Wagtails and Pipits) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: open country and streams throughout MadagascarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Motacilla flaviventris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Madagascar Wagtail
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1860
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1860
- Type locality
- Bombetoke Bay, Madagascar.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 8, no.44 p.94
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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